The City Gardening Starter Pack

Purchase the City Survival Seed Vault and the Fresh Food From Small Spaces, to get you started on your gardening journey!

"While the information in this book will benefit all those seeking to grow and prepare their own food at home, it is especially informative for people with only limited space. Ruppenthal covers every food I ever heard of and a whole bunch I never heard of, like water kimchi(!) that can be grown indoors or outdoors where there is not enough room for a regular garden. This is the perfect answer to the question many people are asking me: How can I take charge of my own life now that food prices are soaring when I hardly have space for a container-grown tomato or two? Reading Ruppenthal, I get a distinct feeling that one can grow enough food to survive on down in the cellar and out on the porch."

Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and suburban readers, but until now, there has been no comprehensive "how-to" guide for growing fresh food in the absence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a practical, comprehensive, and downright fun guide to growing food in small spaces. It provides readers with the knowledge and skills necessary to produce their own fresh vegetables, mushrooms, sprouts, and fermented foods as well as to raise bees and chickens—all without reliance on energy-intensive systems like indoor lighting and hydroponics.

Readers will learn how to transform their balconies and windowsills into productive vegetable gardens, their countertops and storage lockers into commercial-quality sprout and mushroom farms, and their outside nooks and crannies into whatever they can imagine, including sustainable nurseries for honeybees and chickens. Free space for the city gardener might be no more than a cramped patio, balcony, rooftop, windowsill, hanging rafter, dark cabinet, garage, or storage area, but no space is too small or too dark to raise food.

With this book as a guide, people living in apartments, condominiums, townhouses, and single-family homes will be able to grow up to 20 percent of their own fresh food using a combination of traditional gardening methods and space-saving techniques such as reflected lighting and container "terracing." Those with access to yards can produce even more.

Author R. J. Ruppenthal worked on an organic vegetable farm in his youth, but his expertise in urban and indoor gardening has been hard-won through years of trial-and-error experience. In the small city homes where he has lived, often with no more than a balcony, windowsill, and countertop for gardening, Ruppenthal and his family have been able to eat at least some homegrown food 365 days per year. In an era of declining resources and environmental disruption, Ruppenthal shows that even urban dwellers can contribute to a rebirth of local, fresh foods.

21 Varieties, over 21,000 seeds, specially designed for food security in small spaces.

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Provides up to DOUBLE the shelf-life of other seeds (7+ years) USDA developed moisture reduction method for long-term storage.

Your seeds are prepared for long-term storage & priced for planting NOW! Heirloom Organics uses the USDA developed VAULT method of moisture-reduction which provides up to DOUBLE the shelf-life of other seeds. Unlike some patriot suppliers who simply repackage seeds and call them long-term "packaged", we PREPARE them according to USDA methods to reduce moisture before sealing.

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Better SEEDS make better FOOD

Our seeds are chosen by Square Food Gardening EXPERTS for the best results in small-space, low-light gardening. They are 100% Non-GMO, Non-Hybrid, Heirloom and are the freshest seeds from this year's harvest. We provide the highest seed count for the money and prepare the seeds with USDA-developed moisture-reduction before hermetically sealing in air-tight mylar and buckets. Some suppliers use leaky, rust-prone cans instead of durable buckets.

Why you should buy these seeds...

Highest SEED COUNT for the money

Selected by EXPERTS for small-space/low-light

Sealed in Air-tight BUCKETS, not leaky cans

Freshest seeds from this year's harvest

Full EXPERT instructions for maximum success

100% American grown, Non-GMO, Non-Hybrid

How our experts designed your VAULT

Many leafy greens that require little light & space and can be harvested within weeks if not days of planting

Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Seed Packs are the sustainable gardening choice of home, homestead and professional gardeners throughout North America. Whether you are in the city, suburbs or country, Heirloom Organics Seed Packs are designed with your specific space, light and nutritional needs in mind. ...The Seed Vault is for emergency backup and two-person use. The Family Pack is for those with some yard space. This is our most popular pack. It provides lots of seed for a family of four for growing this year, next and then next, with even MORE for storing! The Homestead and Farm Packs are "Investment-Grade" Seed Stocks. Seeds are certain to multiply in value with current economic changes. Many people are turning to goods for investment purposes instead of cash. There are no more valuable "goods" than vegetable seeds, tomorrow's produce.

BULK SEED QUANTITIES

Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Seed Packs are the largest quantity of seeds for the money, by count and weight, that can you buy. Our seed packs are designed for big gardens with LOTS of seed for storage. Our seed packs are designed to deliver bulk seed quantity, at wholesale prices, in integrated packs designed for specific environments. Heirloom Organics Seed Packs list seed counts and weights on each pack so you know what you are getting. We don’t use little “packets” like you see in the store, with a pinch of seeds in each envelope. We use substantial amounts of each variety so you have plenty of seed for now and the future. Even for bartering should you need it! See our Investment-Grade Seed Packs for the best deal you can get, anywhere.

INTEGRATED SEED PACKS

Our seed packs are sold in well-designed, integrated, packs so we can deliver wholesale weights and pricing as well as a good balance of varieties for nutrition, growing environment and storage needs. Each seed pack is specifically designed to support your family’s needs and conditions depending on where you live, how many are in your family/group and what your nutritional and storage needs are. Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Seed Packs provide not only the largest quantity of seed for the purchase price, but packaged properly for long term storage as well. Early indicators of seed shortages have emerged.

LONG-TERM STORAGE PROCESSING (USDA-method)

Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Seed Packs are processed for long-term storage, increasing the shelf-life of our seeds by many years. We use the methods developed and approved by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) for processing and packaging seeds for long-term storage. Heirloom Organics is the only supplier of seeds that has studied and implemented these methods developed by the USDA. No other seeds available today incorporate these advanced methods for seed packaging and storage. Heirloom Organics Seed Packs are truly the food source of tomorrow, packaged with advanced storage methods today.